Show SORGHUMS TO PRODUCE MEAT more money brought into sub humid reg ons by sale of stock than all other sources I 1 in no section of the country hag has a permanent system of agriculture been built without the use of live stock A very careful observation of the condl condi eions that are prevalent in the sub humid sections of the united states shows that more money is brought into those sections through the sale of horses cattle sheep and hogs than from all other sources combined writes W A cochel in par farmers mers mail and breeze the experimental work of the and in dicatos that the grain sorghums ably are the most valuable of all of the grain and forage crops that have yet been tried this also is indicated by the practice of the better class of farmers in the same regions who are continually increasing the acreage de voted to milo sorghum and sudan grass and at the same time are decreasing the acreage of corn oats barley and other crops that are especially adaptable to the more hu mid regions it Is essential that the dry land farmers as well as the farmers in oth er sections should realize that the chief function of live stock is to sup ply a market for the feeds that are produced in the local community and that the live stock business cannot be separate and distinct from farming that the best live stock men are al at most invariably the best farmers in the community and that the best farm ers are as a rule men who give a con sid erable amount of time and atten tion to live stock |